Samantha Erskine
Biography
Samantha E. Erskine, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the College of Management at UMass Boston. She is also a certified executive/life coach and a licensed Zumba instructor. Dr. Erskine has extensive experience in nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, coaching, consulting, and the performing arts. In addition, she served on the boards of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS) in NYC and the Cleveland Chapter of the International Coach Federation.
Area of Expertise
- Emotions in systems of power, privilege, and organizational dynamics
- Racialized, gendered, and classed sensegiving and sensebreaking tactics
- Leadership and organizational identity management and construction
- Flourishing, thriving, and empowering workplaces
- Intersectionality and systemic gendered racism
- Women in the workplace
- Allyship
- CEOs
Degrees
- Ph.D., Organizational Behavior - Case Western Reserve University
- M.S., Nonprofit Management - The New School
- M.A., Women’s History - Sarah Lawrence College
- Dual B.A.s, Psychology and Women’s Studies - University of Maryland College Park
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Bhattacharyya, B., Erskine, S.E., & McCluney, C. L. (Forthcoming). Not All Allies Are Created Equal: An Intersectional Examination of Relational Allyship for Women of Color at Work. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
- Erskine, S.E, Brassel, S., & Robotham, K. (2023). Exposé of Women’s Workplace Experiences Challenges Antiracist Leaders to Step Up. Catalyst
- Erskine, S.E., Archibold, E.E., Bilimoria, D. (in press 2021; online in 2020; accepted in 2018). Afro-Diasporic Women Navigating the Black Ceiling: Individual, Relational, and Organizational Strategies. Business Horizons, 64(1), 37–50.
- Johnson, E.M., Erskine, S.E., and Roberts, L.M. (2020). “Enriching our Conceptual and Practical Understanding of Resilience through the Lens of Black Women at Work.” In B. Caza, N. Powley, and A. Caza, Handbook of Organizational Resilience. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Erskine, S. E., & Bilimoria, D. (2019). White Allyship of Afro-Diasporic Women in the Workplace: A Transformative Strategy for Organizational Change. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 26(3), 319–338.
- This article was featured online by the Initiative for Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability (IARA) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center.